Meekness…Yielding My Personal Rights and Expectations To God
Oh my goodness! So my family and I are going going through wisdom booklet 5 this month…the character quality is meekness. When I found out that we were going to be learning about meekness this month. My exact thoughts were “Oh well this will be easy, I mean I already give God everything. This shouldn’t be hard at all.”
Well let me just tell you. It is SO hard to give EVERYTHING to God! You know when God wants you to give Him everything, He doesn’t mean just the big important things, He means everything even the little tiny things
ONE of my experiences I had this month was…. Wait a minute, first you have to know that me, I’m a person that doesn’t like sleep, I LOVE my sleep! Usually on Saturday’s I sleep in until like 10:30 or 11:00 (I’d sleep in longer but my mom won’t let me)…. anyways Friday evening I asked Mr. Marshal (Somebody who works in the kitchen) what time he needed me in the kitchen the next day. Well I was expecting him to say something like 11:00 or later. But nooooo he was like “8:00” and my response was “a…am?” he was like “Yup 8:00 am.” While my mind was trying to figure out what that was, my mouth dropped open and I was like “Wait 8:00 AM? But that means I have to get up at like sev…seven…thirty! I’m gonna die!” I tried to convince him how I need my sleep…but those of you who know Mr. Marshal, well he doesn’t change his mind very easily. That night I told myself that I was going to get up at 7:30. So EARLY EARLY the next morning I woke up and I looked at the clock and it was 7:25. I was like: “YES 5 more minutes of my precious sleep!” Well at 7:30 I don’t know how I managed to do it, but I got up and got ready to work in the kitchen….yeah anyways… giving up something as small as sleeping in, is kinda hard.
Yielding my personal rights and expectations to God, is something that I’m going to be learning for quite awhile.
~Josie
Giving it all to God